NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY Volume 10 Article 7 Issue 2 Spring 2009 3-1-2009 Click Here to Share - The mpI act of the Veoh Litigations on Viacom v. YouTube Phong Dinh Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncjolt Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Phong Dinh, Click Here to Share - The Impact of the Veoh Litigations on Viacom v. YouTube, 10 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 447 (2009). Available at: http://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncjolt/vol10/iss2/7 This Notes is brought to you for free and open access by Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology by an authorized administrator of Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2: SPRING 2009 CLICK HERE TO SHARE! THE IMPACT OF THE VEOH LITIGATIONS ON VIACOM V. YOUTUBE Phong Dinh' In the high-bandwidth Internet age, video sharing websites such as YouTube and Yahoo! Video are growing in popularity. The ease with which such sharing is accomplished has aided users in illegally uploading copyrighted movies, TV shows, and music. In a recent lawsuit, Viacom and its copyright-owning affiliates sought one billion dollars in damages against YouTube, one of the Web's most popular video-sharing websites, for copyright infringement. In response, YouTube invoked the affirmative defense of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's safe harbor provisions, codified at § 512. The Act states that a service provider is not liable for hosting copyrighted information on its own system for a prolonged period of time as long the service provider has met the threshold requirementsfor these provisions and the specific requirements for at least one of the four safe harbors.